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glikely / obs-ptz

OBS Pan Tilt Zoom camera control plugin
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Ability to set IP camera address/ID (not IP)? #44

Open normen opened 3 years ago

normen commented 3 years ago

Hi,

first of all thanks for this software. I was wondering if it was possible to set the VISCA ID/address for the IP option. I am using a UDP to RS485 converter and have multiple cameras daisy chained to it, only the first camera seems to react.

Thanks again, Normen

glikely commented 3 years ago

The current IP support in the plug-in is based on Sony's VISCA over IP design which doesn't allow for multiple cameras at an address. Using a UDP to Serial adapter is a different configuration. Probably should be doable, but I'll need more information. Can you post your OBS log file? Also, what is the UDP to RS485 device you're using?

normen commented 3 years ago

The adapter is a self-built Arduino/ESP32 based device with a RS485 converter, the code is an adapted version of this: https://github.com/utopiantools/visca-ip-proxy-arduino - I changed the code to work on an ESP32 and removed the address set commands (which don't work for my cameras anyway as they set the address/ID via DIP switches).

This seems to work for multiple cameras when I send VISCA commands directly via code, with different addresses/IDs than 0x81, which I think would be the only thing that needs to be changed in obs-ptz to support such a configuration.

glikely commented 3 years ago

Very cool! Have you posted your modified code to GitHub? I'm keen to take a look, and it is something I could make use of too.

normen commented 3 years ago

Very cool! Have you posted your modified code to GitHub? I'm keen to take a look, and it is something I could make use of too.

No I didn't as I am not sure if I'll make more changes but I basically just removed the tally/LED functionality (as its tied to the M5 platform) and otherwise used the code as is.